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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
on Sunday, police said.
Kashmir region's Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar said that Mir, the operational chief commander of Hizbul Mujahideen
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Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the
sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
-- a krazed killer outfit active in the region -- was killed while a suspect was held during a shootout in the Rangreth area on the outskirts of the Srinagar city.
"On the basis of a specific lead, joint teams of police and CRPF [India's Central Reserve Police Force] laid a cordon in Rangreth and later the army also joined in the operation to eliminate the holed up commander," Kumar said.
Mir took over as the Hizbul Mujahideen chief after previous commander Riyaz Naikoo was killed in May this year.
Kumar, the police chief, termed the killing of Mir as a "big success" of the security forces and "an important achievement towards the elimination of militancy".
Mir had joined krazed killer ranks in 2014 and operated under slain commander Burhan Wani -- a top krazed killer leader who was killed in an encounter with the Indian forces in 2016 and has since become a symbol of protests against the government in the disputed territory.